Peer Led, ICT integrated Learning Environments Presentation at BCSE November 07 Dan Buckley: dan'buc

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Peer Led, ICT integrated Learning
EnvironmentsPresentation at BCSE November
07 Dan Buckley dan.buckley_at_camb-ed.comSubsc
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Dilemmas

• Wont children be irresponsible and not learn
  anything if we dont control them? If we allow
  individual diversity and creativity could we
  control it ?
• Only 11 of a childs time is spent in school
• 52 of childrens time spent in school is spent
  copying, which is a cognitive dead end.
• 98 want to do well at school but only 38 enjoy
  learning at school.
• Is teaching inadvertently damaging the ability to
  learn?

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Two ends of the personalisation spectrum

• T - Route
• Teacher Led
• Instructional
• Learners as consumers of media
• Teacher authenticated
• Content directed
• Distinct from informal
• Pace of the class
• Single course
• Predominant learning style
• Restricted age range
• Personalised by teacher

• P - Route
• Learner Led
• Knowledge creation
• Learners as producers of media
• Communities of learning
• Peer and Self Assessment
• Review cycle directed
• Formal, informal continuum
• Individualised challenges
• Multiple pathway
• Choice of approach
• Peer and multi age working
• Personalised by choice

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Pathways for Change Microsoft Envisioning Guide

• Most schools currently have some P-route and some
  T-route practice. How is this likely to change?

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Key features of a P-route school

• Personalised by the learner based on
  progression in competencies to allow more of the
  content to be determined by learners.
• Lifelong Continuum Same model must work in all
  phases and ages
• Research based All principles must result from
  recognised research
• Assessment owned by the peer group Diagnostic
  assessment is still a core role of teachers but
  final assessment should be by peers.
• Aware of the need for evidence It must generate
  as much data and evidence for monitoring as the
  current system without increasing resource.
• Able to be adopted gradually It must be scalable
  from replacing an hour a week to a complete
  curriculum
• Learners must be able to recognise their own
  progress Ownership of the process requires
  learners to recognise success independently
• Most work requires collaboration, creativity and
  community In the knowledge society these
  competencies are of central importance.

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PbyP learning cycle
What to use for targets ? Lifelong
Competencies Arranged in Skills Ladders Clear
progression up a ladder Can be understood and
evidenced by the learner
E.g. Presenting to an audience would be one
Skill Ladder? Level 1 Target do a show and
tell to your class Level 9 Target Present
live to 1000 of your peers and be rated as
excellent by 50 of them.
Involve / invite Mentors
A Set of Such Skill ladders would be your
learning profile.
Choose a target
Do Activity Collect Evidence
Did you meet your target?
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Natashas Current e-Portfolio.
Some images
T Targets she is working on
A Document
A video
A voxpop
? Evidence awaiting assessment
An animation
A scan of your work
An audio file
She can click a shaded box to see successful
evidence of targets met
A reference
Websites
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PbyP learning cycle
A Set of Such Skill ladders would be your
learning profile.
What to use for Activities ? 10 P-route
? Curriculum as now but teachers create and
highlight opportunites in their lessons Building
implications none ICT access to internet and
capture devices
20 P-route ? Curriculum time for competency
based working Building theme based areas,
breakouts but mainly classes ICT internet and
capture devices available at this time in the
student timetable
Involve / invite Mentors
50 P-route ? Eggbuckland Grange /
Microsociety Ingenium, Room 13, IOS Building
significant diversity and student led services,
town etc ICT position and gateway models
80 P-route ? Distributed and shared
leadership Building Community Opportunity Hub,
all through onion, multicentre ICT intelligent
access, dynamic facilities management by students
company startups.
Choose a target
Do Activity Collect Evidence
Did you meet your target?
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Natashas Current e-Portfolio.
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500 Children are Experts in this Ladder.
Natashas work will automatically go to one of
them
He has to assess it quickly and make positive,
constructive comments if he wants to maintain his
3 star Assessor Rating
Sean gets an Alert. Work has arrived for him to
mark
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Back into Natashas e-portfolio
All of Natashas Portfolio has been assessed by
Expert Students Thousands of students have
assessed thousands of pieces of work. 100
accuracy in the peer marking so far Moderation
built in
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PbyP learning cycle
A Set of Such Skill ladders would be your
learning profile.
Involve / invite Mentors
Choose a target
Do Activity Collect Evidence
Expert Peer Assessment
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The new role of the teacher

• Provides opportunities for student empowerment
  and the development of competencies
• Provides a positive and supportive role model and
  environment for learning
• Action researcher for personal development they
  are learners with the tools to evaluate their own
  effectiveness
• A well informed professional
• Actively share power with their student
  representatives

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Analysis tools to enable action research

• Putting the tools in place that allow teachers to
  reflect on their practice and instantly share
  success. Collaborative development

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Analysis File type
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Analysis By Subject
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Analysis Assessor Type
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Analysis Time of day
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Does Vision dictate the Solution

• A demountable wall costs 10m2 of floor space, 60
  days of staff training or 60 laptops. Does an
  agnostic vision reduce your options?
• In the opening minds Curriculum 1 in 7 lessons
  require teacher presentation. Could the purchase
  of electronic whiteboards be justified in such a
  school?
• In the Grange School, 30 - 50 of the curriculum
  is delivered through students having a job in
  Grangeton. Would the provision of a high
  street with tills, 20 m2 shops, advertising
  plasmas, radio station, traffic lights and a
  student intercom be justified?
• In the Learning Unlimited Schools, even though
  teacher ratios are 125 learners are never taught
  as groups larger than four except for whole
  school assemblies and events. Activities
  requiring acoustic separation occur in glass
  booths. What would be the balance of PCs to
  Laptops you would recommend?

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Classrooms to achieve integration
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Flexible and problem based learning
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Student Directed Learning
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PbyP learning cycle
Check it is SMART
Choose a target
Do Activity Collect Evidence
Submit your evidence
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Learning Cycle Step 1Choosing a target to work
on.
Business Management
Commercial management Customer relationships
Financial management Business development Bid
and proposal management Negotiation
Skills Contract management Sustainable client
relationships
4Rs Building Learning Power
Resilience Reciprocity Reflectiveness Resourcefuln
ess